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| January 08, 2007 | Monday | Zilhaj 17, 1427 |
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Power crisis to deepen in coming years: 50pc demand rise in two years likely
ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The government is anticipating the energy crisis to worsen in the next two years due to a 50 per cent increase in the demand and a rather slow improvement in the supply, it is learnt.... 
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Country shivers as cold spell persists
ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The country shivered in a severe cold snap on Sunday as temperatures hovered below freezing across a large number of cities, leaving at least four people dead....
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Fog blamed on pollutants from India: Suparco probe
ISLAMABAD, Jan 7: The Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) is conducting a detailed investigation to substantiate its earlier findings that smog, more commonly referred to as fog in...
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Political agenda dictated sectarian indoctrination
KARACHI, Jan 7: Recognising the link between education and high priority social issues, a White Paper obtained by Dawn, states that only through education can a society achieve awareness, sensitisation and...
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No PPP response yet, says PML-N
LONDON, Jan 7: Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party has not yet responded one way or the other to Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif’s proposal for holding an all parties conference (APC) some time next month in London....
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Bush, Congress lock horns over Iraq
WASHINGTON, Jan 7: US President George W. Bush and the new Congress are on a collision course over Iraq and the conflict may dominate the remaining two years of Bush’s tenure....
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Israel plans N-strike on Iran: UK paper
LONDON, Jan 7: Israel has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran''s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons, Britain''s Sunday Times newspaper said. Citing what it said were several Israeli...
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‘Iran red tape behind slow progress on pipeline’
TEHRAN, Jan 7: The leader of Pakistani Senate’s delegation to Iran, Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed said on Sunday that Pakistan and Iran should work together to promote peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region as well....
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Curfew across Assam; troops given shoot on sight orders
GUWAHATI (India), Jan 7: India will rush extra troops to northeast Assam state to enforce a crackdown on an outlawed rebel group blamed for the deaths of 55 people in weekend attacks, officials said on Sunday....
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VHP schedules meeting on temple in Ayodhya
LUCKNOW, Dec 7: India’s Hindu extremists will soon announce a date for starting construction of a temple at the site of the razed 16 century Babri mosque in Ayodhya, a move...
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16 suspected Taliban held in Pishin
QUETTA, Jan 7: Security officials on Sunday arrested 16 suspected Taliban from Pishin. According to security officials, the suspects were arrested in a raid by plainclothesmen in the Pishin Bazaar....
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Fanfare as ‘Swara deal’ clinched to settle feud GHALANAI (Mohmand Agency), Jan 7: A grand ceremony was held here on Sunday to mark the end of a blood feud between two tribal groups, and a prominent tribal elder agreed to hand over his daughter in Swara....
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Clashes mark first day of blockade in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Jan 7: The activists of the Awami League-led alliance took to the streets and clashed with security forces, ignoring the government ban on meetings and processions in Dhaka on Sunday, the first day of the three-day countrywide blockade....
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Blast damages bridge, snaps Quetta rail link
QUETTA, Jan 7: Rail traffic between Quetta and the rest of the country was affected after a railway bridge was damaged by a powerful explosion near Dera Murad Jamali late Sunday night....
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Three killed
| QUETTA, Jan 7: A woman and her two children were killed in Dalbandin area of Chagai district due to severe cold. The cold spell hit Quetta and parts of northern and southern Balochistan for the last one week.—Correspondent...
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Fatah holds massive rally in Gaza
| GAZA CITY, Jan 7: Tens of thousands of Fatah supporters packed Gaza''s main soccer stadium on Sunday in a massive show of strength to boost the movement in its increasingly violent struggle against the Islamic militant group Hamas....
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3 US airmen killed in Iraq
| BAGHDAD, Jan 7: A roadside bomb killed three US airmen in Baghdad on Sunday, taking the military''s total losses in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 3,003, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures....
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Fighting erupts in Mogadishu
| MOGADISHU, Jan 7: Heavy fighting erupted on Sunday in the Somali capital after gunmen attacked a camp housing Ethiopian troops hours, after government soldiers said they had secured remote regions in the south where Islamist fighters had been holed up....
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